Climate change policy

[TRITON]

Also that another underwater gas line exploded, due to suspected nefarious countries/terrorism attack.

Ukraine did it

 

[RobinBHM]

2022 - the Nord Stream gas pipelines exploded - believed to be the work of Putins team although difficult to prove conclusively.

These links are built, they are far from robust bits of infrastructure. Also very expensive Morocco

They are robust.

Not many things are robust against bombs

I think the Nord stream was blown by USA or Ukraine not Russia……but it’s a conspiracy theorists dream.

 

[Jacob]

Technology and unconstrained capitalism have caused climate change. Unconstrained capitalism offers no hope. Can technology provide the solution?

 

[RobinBHM]

Something I find quite interesting is how everyone is so obsessed with how electric is made, or stored, or transferred, but when it comes to water supply nobody pays any attention.

Water is as important (if not more so) than electricity yet other than pollution events and the occasional hose pipe ban, nobody is questioning the types of pumps in pumping stations or the size of reservoirs or groundwater aquifers, how water is piped and what those pipes are made of.

people shouting about how we can't possibly meet demand for electric with renewables but don't give a monkeys about how to meet water demands during certain times. So far out of water and electric, it is water that is limited at certain times of year and is far less reliable. Yet we just seem to accept that.

As long as electricity is still flowing out of your sockets what difference does it make if it comes from renewable energy, demanding that it be produced by fossil fuels because you 'feel' it is more reliable makes no sense. If anything it is more unreliable as it's pretty hard for another country to turn off our solar, wind and hydro but they can easily affect oil/gas and uranium supplies.

There hasn’t been a reservoir built since 1989 and since privatisation 35 reservoirs have been sold off

There’s a reason why allowing critical infrastructure to end up in the hands of sovereign wealth funds is a bad idea.

 

[JSW]

Something I find quite interesting is how everyone is so obsessed with how electric is made, or stored, or transferred, but when it comes to water supply nobody pays any attention.

Water is as important (if not more so) than electricity yet other than pollution events and the occasional hose pipe ban, nobody is questioning the types of pumps in pumping stations or the size of reservoirs or groundwater aquifers, how water is piped and what those pipes are made of.

^^This.
Remember you can live for weeks without food, but a matter of days without water.